Ford, Ontario education workers' union set to speak this morning

Premier Doug Ford and Education Minister Stephen Lecce are holding a press conference this morning as Ontario education workers get ready to escalate their job action.

Ford will be joined by Education Minister Stephen Lecce

Introduced in the Legislative Assembly last Monday by Lecce and passed late Thursday afternoon, the “” makes it illegal for CUPE’s education workers to go on strike. It also imposed a four-year contract on them. That legislation passed late Thursday afternoon. Ontario’s 55,000 custodians, early childhood education, education assistants, and administrative stafflast Friday after failing to reach a contract agreement with the Ford government.

The workers have been without a contract since Aug. 31 and despite several rounds of talks, a new collective agreement has yet to be negotiated.

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